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xvii GERARD TER BORCH 77 stands looking at the spectator. He wears a large brown peruke, a dark costume, and a white collar with tassels. On the right is a view of a landscape with a park in the foreground, and in the background a heath under a sombre sky. Canvas, 19 inches by 15^ inches. Sale. W. Schmidt the younger, Munich, December 10, 1907, No. 16. 2 1 6. Jacob van den Burgh (died 1660), Secretary of the Dutch Delegates at the Peace Congress at Miinster, and a noted poet. Half- length, turned three-quarters left. A black cloak hiding the arms, a white collar, and long hair. He looks at the spectator. Oval ; painted in 1646. The original is lost. Engraved by P. Holsteyn. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 1257. 217. Van Campen, Burgomaster (?) of Deventer. There has been no burgomaster of that name at Deventer. A Winold van Campen is mentioned between 1628 and 1633 as a member of the electoral college (" Gemeemanns "). In the Liirman collection, Bremen, 1857 (Parthey, ii. 626). 218. CINQ MARS (1620-1642). It is uncertain whether the subject was rightly named. Waagen thought that " the treatment of the ruff" was "too hard and minute for the master," but the picture was unquestionably genuine. Oval copper ; a small picture. Mentioned by Waagen (Suppl. 450) as in the collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Bart., Keir, 1857. In the collection of Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Bart., Pollok House, near Glasgow [till 1909, when it was destroyed in a fire. Translator}. 219. THE COLENBERGH FAMILY. The wife, whose maiden name was Van Braeckel, sits on the left in a red arm-chair, looking at the spectator. She is in black with white collar and cuffs. She gives with her left hand a gold watch and chain to her son, a youth with fair hair falling on his shoulders and his large felt hat in his left hand. The son wears an elegant grey costume with a large cape embroidered with gold and large wide pink cuffs. Between him and his mother, the father sits at a table, wearing dark clothes, a white collar, and a black hat. He, too, looks at the spectator. On the greyish-green wall is a map. At the top are three coats-of-arms. The two Colenbergh coats are : sable, three lions or. The wife's coat is : argent, three hound's heads sable. A sound picture, well and thinly painted. It strongly reminds one of the Moerkerken family group (248). Panel, 17^ inches by 15^ inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 1636. In the collection of Fabricius van Leyenburg ; bequeathed to Haarlem, 1883. In the Haarlem Museum, 1909 catalogue, No. 30.